It appears that Marvel's all-encompassing movie universe centered around The Avengers is about to expand to the realm of the small screen. Not only that, but it seems that it will involve the film's director, Joss Whedon.

According to Deadline, ABC has greenlit a pilot for a live-action TV series centered on Nick Fury's secret government defense agency, S.H.I.E.L.D. (Which is a lot easier than saying, "Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.")

The pilot, which is set to start production immediately, will be co-written by Joss Whedon along with brother, Jed Whedon (Dollhouse, Spartacus: Vengeance), and Maurissa Tancharoen (Dollhouse. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.)

It's not a hard task to break down the essence of justice itself into its chemical elements.

Essentially, it's a lot of sodium and a critical dash of "pissed-off because of dead parents." When put together, it spells trouble for all criminal scum, and possibly for Magnesium, which just happened to be in its way.

On tonight's Attack of the Show, Michael Ian Black and Sara Underwood sit down with comedian/author Mike Birbiglia about his new film, Sleepwalk With Me while we take a look at Apple's secret training manual for employees with Gizmodo's Sam Biddle on The Loop. DVDuesday returns with Chris Gore's review of Battleship on Blu-Ray and more! Tune in tonight 7/6c.

With the DVD/Blu-ray release of The Avengers coming ever so close on September 25, Marvel has officially released the film's alternate opening, which will be included on the home releases along with other deleted material.

In the scene, we jump to after the events of the film where Cobie Smulders' S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill is in a debriefing with her superiors over the Earth-shattering invasion by angry aliens; the culmination of a series of events started by Nick Fury's attempt to harness the power of the glowing cosmic relic, the Tesseract.

It would have been an interesting way to begin the film, essentially foreshadowing the level of carnage that would be ahead. However, it's a bit too slow in tone to start a mega-movie like The Avengers.

It appears that the six-year plan to release the newly-3D-rendered Star Wars sextet one film per year has changed. -- At least when it comes to prequels, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. It has been announced that the latter two prequels will be released on September 20, 2013 and October 11, 2013 respectively.

While this past February's re-release of the often-maligned first prequel entry, The Phantom Menace turned-in a respectable $533.8 million worldwide gross, it was hardly the lucrative, swag-selling pop-culture tsunami that some at Lucasfilm may have been anticipating.

The two follow-ups will now be relegated to quick back-to-back releases next Fall before theaters prepare for the main event in these 3D re-releases: The original trilogy, beginning with the 1977 film that started it all known as A New Hope. (Perhaps in 2014 if the schedule remains on track.)

Do you think this is evidence pointing to where the prequels stand to audiences? Or, is it an indicator that the younger crowds who actually prefer those films are more content to watch them at home in two dimensions?

The Expendables 2 was yet another fun-filled violent love letter to the glory days of unapologetically-un-PC 80's action romps. However, high definition and some modern filmmaking techniques may have left it a little too "pretty" for some.

Well, thanks to this edited trailer, the film now has the unmistakable essence of an old-school VHS trailer that precedes an FBI warning which, unlike with a DVD/Blu-ray, we actually had the ability to fast-forward through.

Sit back and watch this trailer that will leave you wondering if you need to rewind it before taking it back to the video store.